Format:
Online-Ressource (355 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780752488721
Content:
The Danish invasions in the second decade of the 11th century came after unprecedented Viking attacks stretching back 30 years. Earlier kings of Wessex had held and pushed back the tide of Danish encroachment, but faced by wave after wave of incursions from powerful Scandinanvian raiders, including fierce Thorkill 'the tall', wily Olaf Tryggvason and the redoubtable Swein Forkbeard, the English forces buckled under the mounting pressure. Though losing and then regaining his kingdom through force of arms makes him one of only two English monarchs ever to do so, Aethelred II remains an enig
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Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; 1 First Onslaught; 2 Confronting the Danelaw; 3 Dawn of the Second Viking Age in England; 4 'The Insolence of the Danes'; 5 'Winning the Swordmoot'; 6 Swein Forkbeard's Invasion of 1013; 7 'After Great Toils and Difficulties; 8 'Flet Engle … Ded is Edmund; 9 Aftermath; Selected Further Reading; Appendix 1 Battle Chronology 796-1016; Appendix 2 The Burhs of the Burghal Hidage; Appendix 3 The West Saxon and English Succession (858-1066); Plates; Copyright
Additional Edition:
9780750951982
Additional Edition:
Print version An Onslaught of Spears : The Danish Conquest of England
Language:
English
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